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Jeffrey Ladish
Personal blog · jeffreyladish.comsecurityai
Jeffrey Ladish's personal blog at jeffreyladish.com covers security and ai. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “100 Tweets on Nuclear War”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post arguing that nuclear war, though extremely bad, is unlikely to cause human extinction. The only comment is the author's own, saying the aim is to improve discussion of societal risks.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
“Applying the security mindset to everything.”
Most-linked posts?
- 100 Tweets on Nuclear War2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-11-12
What Hacker News says?
I wrote this post, and the point is to improve discussion of societal risks. As others have pointed out, nuclear war doesn't have to kill everyone to be extremely bad and worth avoiding. I spend a lot of my time thinking about risks from nuclear and biological weapons, and downplaying these risks is not my purpose. One problem with assuming nuclear war kills everyone is that this discourages anyone from preparing fo…
Comment linking /one-hundred-opinions-on-nuclear-war/
on “Nuclear war is unlikely to cause human extinction?”Submitted Anatomy of a Rental Phishing Scam as a story · 335 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Optimistic Comment on Eliezer Yudkowsky’s AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 100 Tweets on Nuclear War as a story · 1 points
HN discussion